User manual OKI B710DN

[. . . ] Improper Setup icons alert you to devices and operations that are not compatible with the printer. Trademarks Brother and the Brother logo are registered trademarks and BRAdmin Professional is a trademark of Brother Industries, Ltd. Apple, Macintosh and LaserWriter are registered trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. HP, Hewlett-Packard, Jetdirect and PCL are registered trademarks of Hewlett-Packard Company. Microsoft, Windows and Windows NT are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. [. . . ] Instead, go to the Start button, select Settings, and open the Printers window. Click the icon of the printer that you wish to configure, select File from the menu bar, and then Properties. In the Add Port dialog, select the Other radio button and then highlight Brother LPR port. If you have already used this name, you will get an error message if you try to use it again, in which case use BLP2, etc. . . Enter the IP address of the printer that you wish to print to and click OK. You should now see the port that you have just created in the Print to the following port setting of the printer driver. 4 Other sources of information See Chapter 2 of this User's Guide to learn how to configure the IP address of the printer. 4-7 5 Network printing from Windows®: NetBIOS Peer-to-Peer printing 5 Overview Brother print server range supports SMB (Server Message Block). This means that just like regular Windows® PC's, Brother printers can appear in your network neighborhood. The main advantage of NetBIOS printing is that you are able to print from legacy DOS applications that are running on PC's that are connected to Microsoft® networks. Note · You must configure the IP address on your printer before you proceed with this chapter. · The default domain name of the print server is WORKGROUP, to change it use your web browser or the BRAdmin application. Print server configuration for Windows® 95/98/Me, Windows® 2000/XP and Windows NT® 4. 0 Print server configuration In order for this function to work, you must correctly change the domain name or workgroup name to match that of your network. Once this is done, the print server will appear automatically in your network neighborhood and you will be able to send print documents to it without having to install additional software. When you are connected to the print server, enter the default password access in response to the # prompt. Type in anything in response to the Enter Username> prompt, you will then be at the Local> prompt. Now enter the command: SET NETBIOS DOMAIN domainname EXIT Where domainname is the name of the domain or workgroup that you are on. If you are not sure what your domain name or workgroup name is, look in the Identification tab in your Windows® 95/98/Me and Windows NT®4. 0 network applet. 5-3 Network printing from Windows®: NetBIOS Peer-to-Peer printing Installing the Brother NetBIOS Port Monitor The Brother NetBIOS Port Monitor requires the TCP/IP transport protocols to be installed on your Windows® 95/98/Me/2000/XP and Windows NT®4. 0 computer. If you are using the TCP/IP protocol, the proper IP address should be defined on both the Brother print server and your client PC. Note If you already installed the driver from the printers CD-ROM Installer and you selected "Brother Peer-to-Peer Network Printer" during the installation, then you do not need to install the Brother Network Print Software again. 5 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Start the CD-ROM installation menu program according to the printer Quick Setup Guide. Select the desired directory to install the Brother Network Direct Print files and click Next. The name must be unique on your PC, however other computers can use the same port name as the name you specify on your PC. You must now enter the server name and port name for the actual print server. You can use the Browse button to search for the print server, select the domain/workgroup name, and then the server is listed. If the print server does not automatically appear in your browse list, then you must ensure that the domain name is configured correctly. [. . . ] By installing the Web BRAdmin server software on a computer running IIS*, Administrators with a web browser can connect to the Web BRAdmin server, which then communicates with the device itself. Unlike the BRAdmin Professional utility - which is designed for Windows® systems only - the Web BRAdmin server software can be accessed from any client computer with a web browser that supports Java. Please note this software is not included on the CD-ROM that was supplied with your Brother product. Please visit http://solutions. brother. com/webbradmin to learn more about this software and to download it. [. . . ]